The reality of feeding wild animals

[onthecuttingedge2005]

this is my wife feeding wild raccoons at our back pourch here in Crescent City California.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=315610886591840481&ei=hDC2SNKfL42UrAP34PCvDA&q=mommy+raccoon+and+4+babies&hl=en

if the video doesn't load at first then just refresh it, it should work.

although the four adolescent raccoons in the foreground are in training the raccooon in the far rear called "Mommy" has already been trained.

Raccoons love!!! purina cat food.

Jerry[8D]

[NIGE]

They are cute, Good video.

[tedathome]

Very cool vid. I have been on the other side, evicting the little rascals from my boathouse- they can be very viscious when they think they are cornerd. I'm glad for both as they seem to have developed a good relationship!

[jackgephart]

That was beautiful Jerry, I am so glad that you and your wife can experience now what is to come fully in the near future. Not trying to get all Bible crazy this morning, just thought it fit nicely.

(Isaiah 11:6-9) 6 And the wolf will actually reside for a while with the male lamb, and with the kid the leopard itself will lie down, and the calf and the maned young lion and the well-fed animal all together; and a mere little boy will be leader over them. 7 And the cow and the bear themselves will feed; together their young ones will lie down. And even the lion will eat straw just like the bull. 8 And the sucking child will certainly play upon the hole of the cobra; and upon the light aperture of a poisonous snake will a weaned child actually put his own hand. 9 They will not do any harm or cause any ruin in all my holy mountain; because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters are covering the very sea.

[markofkane]

Thanks, Jerry. I love Raccoons (not for hunting!!!!) I think they look like little bandits. I know they can be mean, but they are cute other times.

We used to have them on our back porch looking for food, I got videos somewhere (and opossums a muskrat)

And we had a neighbor that had 2 as pets!!(in the 70's) I got to pet them!! Then some A-Hole neighbor (another one) shot and killed them because they were in his barn!! [!][!][!][!]

I had a toy raccoon soapdish as a kid and raccoon books.[)]
one was "Macaroon the raccoon"

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Thanks guys.

I love animals, these are the animals that come to visit us.

1.Raccoons
2.Porcupines
3.Opossums
4.Red squirrels
5.Chipmunks
6.Black tail deer
7.Black bears
8.Hawks
9.Osprey
10.River otters
11.Red ribbon garden snakes
12.Brown salamanders and newts
13.Red bellied toads(rare and endangered) I seen one so far.
14.Mexican spotted owl
15.Fisher kings
16.Steller jays
17.Ceder Wax wings
18.Wrens
19.Junkos
20.Golden Finches and various other species of finches.
21.Mountain Lions
22.Moles
23.California condors
24.Bald eagles
25.Ground squirrels
26.Robins
27.Ravens(extremely intelligent and large, these birds have been known to hunt small to medium sized rodents and snakes)
28.Crows
29.Seagulls
30.Cormorants
31.Puffins
32.Sea Ducks
33.Mallards
34.Brown Pelicans
35.Aleutian goose
36.Banana slugs(two species)
37.various tree frogs
38.buzzards
39.Various species of bees, Bumble bees being the most dominate.
40.various species of spiders, black widows are kind of rare in these parts.

everyone who comes to visit us is so amazed by the animal diversity just in our back yard.

well there you go, I won't get into the creatures that we see at the beach just 300ft away because there are to many to list, lol.

Jerry[8D]

[aladyblond]

that was a very cute video. i know they like purina cause i feed my outside tom cat and they always come and eat his food. you are fortunate to be so close to nature. we get raccoons possum and squirels here in town. they have no where else to go.

[caangel43]

very cute your very loving with them I wish more people were

[markofkane]

you got a wild life center, Jerry!!

We get other animals too, but not on the back porch, unless it's dead from what the cats killed.

I see an occasional deer in the field, squirrels (I like squirrels, unless they cut off our power, that has happened 2 times, they were fried) rabbits, snakes, and all kinds of birds, even a hummingbird once in a great while.

Doves, Grackles, Robins, Finches, Cardinals, Sparrows (Sparrows are here year around) Blue-Jays, and others I cannot name.

I hate bugs, except Butterflies and Ladybugs. All the rest are pests.

I am not sure if I'd want a bear or mountain lion around,. I heard we have Coyotes around.

[Art]

We had a small family of raccoons visit our upper level deck when we lived in Colorado. My young son took some candied yams (similar to sweet potatoes) out and was feeding them by hand until my wife and I came across him and them! She almost freaked out at first but managed to remain calm so as not to frighten them.

When our son came back inside she scolded him to the fact that they might appear quite cute BUT they are still wild animals. They don't have manners and do not know right from wrong. Please exercise caution whenever feeding or approaching wild animals!!

[markofkane]

Especially since they might have rabies.[:0][:0][:0]

[Bill819]

Gerry
I think it is about time that you start building an Ark.
Bill []

[markofkane]

Don't you just Noah it?